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Elam Colt New Director of Ike CIA: He's Clubs the ME's Image by Lloyd Shearer William Colby and his wife Barbara are the only children in their for a large family. They had five children, four of whom are still respective families. As a result of .childhood loneliness, they opted living: Jonathan, 27; Carl, 23; Paul, 18, and Christine, 14. Elam Colt New Director of Ike CIA: He's Clubs the ME's Image by Lloyd Shearer WASHINGTON, D.C. he Central Intelligence Agency is intelligence theory and technique. ruling with the promise of a $400,000 take place, the CIA has hired merce, suffering from a badly tarnished And worse yet, from a public rela- contribution to the Republican cam- naries in Southeast Asia, overflown the image, and its new director, William tions viewpoint, it has stupidly involved paign fund of 1972. Moreover, it al- Soviet Union, dropped agents into Red TEgan Colby, 54, is charged with bur- itself in the domestic scandals of the lowed its personnel to prepare a psy- China, structured its own airline out of nishing it. Nixon Administration by furnishing chological profile on Ellsberg for the Taiwan, conspired to overthrow various This is no easy job, since over the equipment to E. Howard Hunt Jr. to White House. regimes in various parts of the world years the CIA has generated on the help break into and burglarize the Bev- Leading participants from Iran to Cambodia to Cuba, and in domestic front- a closed, mysterious, erly Hills office of Dr. Lewis Fielding, general, has consistently intervened in excessively secretive and sinister image. psychiatrist of Daniel Ellsberg of Pen- And two of its former employees, E. the domestic affairs of foreign nations. It has also violated the legislation of its tagon Papers notoriety. Howard Hunt and James McCord, were With that agency background of con- • origin. The CIA also provided Hunt with leading characters in the Watergate troversial hits and misses, Director Created in 1947 specifically to gather false identity equipment so that he fiasco, to say nothing of the four Cu- Colby has his image-changing work cut .-2 "Foreign Intelligence," it has inter- could fly to Denver and.try to talk Dita ban-Americans who were hired to do out for him. He is approaching it with :, vened in American student organiza- Beard into denying that she ever wrote the actual- dirty work. care and vigor. He is inviting newsmen lions. It haS trained about 50 police of- the infamous ITT memo, coupling a Overseas, of course, where most of to lunch with him, to ask questions, to 1'. ficers from a dozen American cities in favorable anti-trust Justice Department its clandestine as well as overt activities visit CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., 4 where the access road now bears a sign, tivist than student, those who are mare imperialist conspiracy, a class society 1920, the only child of Elbridge Colby, plainly lettered CIA. It used to say Bu- the engineer than liberal art buff. and that there must be, according to an Army officer. He was reared at var- • reau of Public Roads. He even allowed We're wide open for the person who their doctrine, a revolution, a change ious Army posts, spent three years 'of PARADE to interview his wife, the for- believes we have an essential function in our society. his youth (1929-32) in Tientsin, China, mer Barbara Heinzen, a delightful to perform." "It's a religious belief, acid from time entered Princeton in 1936 and was woman with printer's ink in her blood According to Colby, the primary to time the Soviets have engaged in graduated four years later. He entered who helped put him through Columbia function of the CIA is apple-pie simple: the process of trying to encourage it Columbia University Law School but University Law School by working as a "We gather information from all over along. left after his first year to join the para- department store copywriter and editor the world in order to learn as much as "America has gotten into several chute corps. of a New York State labor publication. we can about foreign problems so that wars in this century, started by people "He had to memorize the eye chart Soft-speaking and low-key, Colby, a we can decide what to do about them. who thought we-either would not or in order to get in," his wife reveals. 24-year unpretentious veteran of the "We have various ways of gathering could not stand up to them. Kaiser Wil- "But he memorized one line back- spy business, believes in opening up information—reading newspapers, tak- helm thought we would not join World. wards. When he took the eye test, he the CIA without disclosing its secrets. ing photographs, listening to electronic War I. Adolf Hitler was quite certain cited the letters incorrectly. He wanted He is allowing the TV networks to noises in the atmosphere, and employ- that we would stay out of World War so badly to get in, however, that they take a guided tour of the agency. He is ing clandestine activity where it's essen- II. Josef Stalin thought we would not looked the other way and the examin- permitting his men to identify them- tial. We gather the information, analyze fight in Korea and Ho Chi Minh cer- ing officer said, 'So long as you can see selves over the telephone instead of it, think about it, come to some judg- tainly felt we could not stop his effort the ground we'll take you.'" switching the caller to an extension ment or estimate the situation and relay to take over South Vietnam. Where Colby served as a staff lieutenant in number. He is preparing succinct in- it to the national leadership, executive, people realized we not only could but the 462nd Parachute Artillery Battalion telligence summaries instead of pon- legislative, and indirectly, even to the would fight—for example, in the Berlin (he had attended the ROTC at Prince- derous, bulky reports and forwarding public so that the U.S. can make in- Crisis, the Cuban Missile Crisis—we ton) and was fired when a new com- them to interested parties with a phone formed judgments and decisions." have had no war. Having a CIA is like mander joined the 462nd and replaced number to call in case they need more Colby, who will finish his first year as having insurance. You pay for it, but the old staff with a new one. Lieutenant detailed information. director of the CIA on Sept. 4 this year, hopefully it's worth it." Colby found himself in a replacement believes the agency is indispensable, Conscious of public opinion Head of 'black operations' pool, which he didn't like. When an "because I do not think the U.S. today officer came through, looking for vol- He is aware of the mounting public can afford the luxury of being blind in Bill Colby, 5 feet 11, thin, trim, with unteers for an overseas operation, code- criticism which holds that his 16,000- the world or of hoping to learn enough pale blue myopic eyes helped by named JEDBURGH, he quickly volun- man agency is spending approximately of what's going on through the public glasses, is a lawyer by training. He looks teered, thus becoming a member of $750 million of the taxpayers' money press and other media." like a lawyer, also like a teacher, a Gen. William Donovan's intelligence each year without enough public ac- He knows, he says; that the U.S. has minister, a banker, a doctor, anything- service, the Office of Strategic Services. countability through the various Con- no intention of invading the Soviet except what he is—the nation's chief As a member of the jED's, Colby para- gressional subcommittees charged with Union and is sure the Soviet Union has spooksman who for years was deputy chuted in uniform to help resistance tracking the CIA. And he is mindful of no intention of invading us. "But I think director of the CIA's clandestine or groups in France during the weeks fol- inadequacies in the agency's recruiting the Soviet Union has a philosophy "black operations" directorate. lowing the Allied landing. program, especially of minorities. which holds that America is run by an He was born in St. Paul, Minn., in continued "What we're looking for," he ex- plains, "are young men and women who are interested in intellectual and technical pursuits. Intelligence is tech- nical these days. We're in the market for something like 130 specialist disci- plines, running all the way from nuclear physicists to financial economists. We need every kind of specialty to help in our total' intelligence process. "We especially need women and blacks. We don't have enough of them as professional intelligence officers. A few months ago I gathered together all the middle managers in the agency and I gave them a very direct talk. I told them I wanted to see the number of blacks and the number of women in responsible jobs rise sharply. Opportunity and challenge "We also need," Colby concedes, "some fellows who will run some clan- destine operations for us. They have to be fellows with a little bit of adventure in their spirit and frequently quite a lot of courage. But I'm not going around saying, 'Join the CIA instead of the Fish and Wildlife Service.' And I'm not go- ing around saying, 'Join the CIA and save the world.' People who want an interesting, fascinating challenging ca- Colby was sworn in as director of the CIA on Sept.
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